 The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home : Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold...  Notes and Queries - Page 2001884Full view - About this book
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 594 lehte
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old both... | |
 | 1851 - 568 lehte
...occurs in the epilogue to his " Poems of Divine Love," and " Of the Fear of God," &c., thus : — " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chiitks that time has made, Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become, As they draw nigh to their eternal... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1851 - 602 lehte
...from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, battcr'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old both... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1856 - 800 lehte
...different views, and, I hope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be true, that The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made. Then surely sickness, contributing, no less than old age, to the shaking down this scaffolding of the... | |
 | Abraham Mills - 1856 - 590 lehte
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old both... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1856 - 600 lehte
...old poet are founded on actual ohservation and experience : — "Thesonl's frail cottage, shatter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made." Many physiologists of the school of materialism have endeavored to show that the hrain in man is larger... | |
 | Edmund Waller - 1857 - 378 lehte
...too, is he in much of his " Divine Poetry," particularly the lines at the end, beginning with — " The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd," Lets in new light through chinks which time hath made. These contain a though t,sO far as we remember, new and highly poetical. We may... | |
 | Robert Carruthers - 1857 - 578 lehte
...different views, and, I nope, have received some advantage by it, if what Waller says be trae, that " ' The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through fhinV* that time has made.' "Then surely sickness, contributing no less than old age to the shaking... | |
 | Aubrey Thomas De Vere - 1858 - 298 lehte
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old,... | |
 | Robert Eldridge Aris Willmott - 1858 - 236 lehte
...storms of youth and manhood have subsided, introduces the same image into his celebrated lines : — The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light, through chinks which time has made. TICKELL AND GOLDSMITH. 191 While speaking of these resemblances of thought, I... | |
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